thank you very much. i'm pleased to have vice president pence with us and four great soldiers who spent a lot of time in afghanistan, and i am going to be talking to you about afghanistan. what you think your views, these , are people on the ground, know it probably better than anybody. you know it pretty well, right? and we're going to be getting some ideas because we've been there. it's our longest war. we have been there for many years. we had been there now for close to 17 years. i want to find out why we've been there for 17 years, how it's going, and what we should do in terms of additional ideas. we have heard plenty of ideas from people. i want to hear it from the people on the ground. so this is actually a very important luncheon, and it's great honor to have you with us. and i look forward to the discussion. we'll wait until the media leaves. i want to thank you, folks, thank you very much. thank you. [indiscernible] donald trump: disappointed. very disappointed. i don't think -- no, but i am certainly disappointed. for seven years i've been hearing repeal and replace from congress. i've been hearing it loud and strong. and that when we finally get a chance to repeal and replace, they don't take advantage of it. so that's disappointing. so i am very, i would say disappointed in what took place. , it will go on, and we'll win, we'll win on taxes. we're going to win on infrastructure and lots of other things that we're doing. we've won and are winning the war as you know on the border. we're very much decimating isis. you can see that. you see that better than anybody sees it. the soldiers that are with us today. we've had a lot of victories, but we haven't had a victory in healthcare. we're disappointed. i am very disappointed. because again, even as a civilian for seven years, i've been hearing about healthcare. and i've been hearing about repeal and replace. and obamacare is a total disaster. some states have over 200%increase. 200% increase in their premiums. and their deductibles are through the roof. it's an absolute disaster. and i think you'll also agree that i've been saying for a long time, let obamacare fail, and then everybody's going to have to come together and fix it. and come up with a new plan and a plan that is really good for the people with much lower premiums, much lower costs and much better protection. i've been saying that, mike i think you will agree for a , long time. let obamacare fail, it will be a lot easier. i think we're probably in that position where we'll let obamacare fail. we're not going to own it. i'm not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. we'll let obamacare fail and the democrats will come to us, how do we fix it, or how do we come up with a new plan? we'll see what happens. there's other things going on right now as we speak. but i am disappointed because for so many years, i've been hearing repeal and replace. i'm sitting in the oval office right next door, pen in hand, waiting to sign something. and i'll be waiting. and eventually we're going to get something done, and it's going to be very good. but obamacare is a big failure, and it has to be changed. we have to go to a plan that works. we have to go to a much less expensive plan in terms of premiums. and something will happen, and it will be good. may not be as quick as we had hoped, but it's going to happen. [indiscernible] well, they were not disloyal. they had their own reasons. i was very surprised when two folks came out last night because we thought they were in fairly good shape. but they did. and you know, everybody has their own reason. if you really think about it, you look at it, and we have 52 people. we had no democrat support, which is really, you know something that should be said. , we should have had democrats vote. it was a great plan for a lot of people. we had no democrat support. we had 52 people. we had four no's. now we might have had another one somewhere in there. but essentially the vote would whenbeen pretty close to, you look at it 48-4. , that's a pretty impressive vote by any standard. and yet you have a vote of 48-4 or something like that, and yet you need more. it's pretty tough. the way i look at it is in 2018 we'll have to get some more people elected. we have to get out and get more people elected that are republican. we have to probably pull in the few people that voted against it. i don't know, they're going to have to explain to you why they did. and i'm sure they'll have very fine reasons. but we have to get more republicans elected. because we have to get it done. we got it passed in the house. we would have gotten it very much -- you can't use a head as a stand. we don't want that to happen. you're messing with the wrong guy here. so we want we want -- i think , we are going to do very well in i would be not surprised if 2018. something were done long before that. but in any event, because the margin was so small, the majority margin was so small, we'll have to get more republicans elected in and i'll 2018. be working very hard for that to happen, ok? it would be nice to have democrat support but really they're obstructionists. they have no ideas. they have no thought process. all they want to do is obstruct government and obstruct period. in this case, think of it. so many good things, we didn't get one vote, and their plan has failed. obamacare isn't failing, it's failed, god. -- gone. so i think something's going to happen. we'll find out, stay tuned. thank you all very much. [indiscernible] announcer 1: the headline in the hill, the gop's repeal only plan collapses quickly in the senate. mitch mcconnell spoke to reporters about the stalled efforts to repeal and replace the health care law and more recently to replace the repeal only measure in the senate. we will hear from democratic leader chuck schumer. >> as i indicated last night, is 50tty clear there are not republicans at the moment to vote for a replacement for obamacare. consequently sometime in the near future we will have a